SAN DIEGO – The elimination of race adjustments in lung-function testing could affect millions of people in the U.S. as they lose or gain eligibility for jobs and benefits due to reclassification of ...

Widely used lung function tests often fail to detect lung disease in Black patients, according to research—and experts are calling for new methods of testing. Spirometry, the most common lung function ...

Removing a patient’s race from an equation used to assess lung function — a change called for by health equity advocates — would mean that the lung disease of nearly half a million Black Americans ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Full pulmonary function tests contribute useful diagnostic information for evaluating patients with ...

Emphysema is missed more often in Black Americans than in White Americans, and now researchers report they have figured out why. The investigators found that many Black men who were considered to have ...

PPF is identified by decline in lung function, worsening symptoms, and increased fibrosis on imaging, with variable criteria across studies. Risk factors for PPF include older age, male sex, smoking, ...